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SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. defense tech firm Anduril Industries Inc. said Thursday it plans to expand partnerships with South Korean defense companies by combining its artificial intelligence (AI) platform with the country's advanced manufacturing capabilities across various weapons systems.
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SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Creditors of Yeochun NCC, a major producer of ethylene products in the country, decided to raise the upper limit of the company's letter of credit (L/C) to US$300 million, to help secure naphtha supplies, the financial regulator said Thursday.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Before the golden days of K-pop megastars BTS and BLACKPINK, first-generation acts like H.O.T. and FIN.K.L ruled the South Korean pop music scene.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks extended their bullish run Thursday to close at a new all-time high after briefly topping the 7,500-point mark on hopes for a Washington-Tehran deal to end their war and positive outlooks on chipmakers, backed by an artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The local currency ga…
(2nd LD) Seoul shares shoot up nearly 6.5 pct to over 7,300 on chip rally, Mideast hopes; won rises
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday urged stepped-up efforts to stabilize consumer prices, calling it a top priority for his government amid uncertainties stemming from the prolonged war in the Middle East.
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South Korean and Chinese business leaders discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in strategic industries such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors and batteries at a forum in Shanghai on Thursday.
Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts i…
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Eight liberal student activists were apprehended by police Thursday for attempting to enter the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- With less than a month remaining until the June 3 local elections, South Korea is gearing up for the pivotal event widely expected to reshape the country's political landscape and determine the future momentum of President Lee Jae Myung's administration, political observers here noted Thursday.
Korean drugmaker doubles down on expanding seizure medicine across globe
Eighty-three-year-old Rep. Park Ji-won, the oldest sitting member of the National Assembly, is running in the Democratic Party of Korea’s race to become speaker for the latter half of the 22nd National Assembly.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The Board of Audit and Inspection said Thursday it will launch a special inspection next week to make sure that public servants remain faithful to their duties, including maintaining political neutrality, ahead of next month's nationwide local elections.
South Korean civic groups are organizing cheering squads to welcome North Korea’s Naegohyang Women’s Football Club, which is scheduled to face a South Korean team in the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Champions League on May 20 at 7 p.m. at Suwon Stadium in Gyeonggi Province.
LG CNS, the IT services arm of LG Group and one of Korea's largest systems integrators, on Thursday launched a software platform to run fleets of robots from different manufacturers under a single control layer — a problem that has long required custom engineering to coordinate the machines.
Korean won climbs to pre-Iran war level on returned risk appetite
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- For pianist Sunwoo Yekwon, Franz Liszt was once a composer of empty virtuosity -- all flash and little substance. But with his new album released Thursday, Sunwoo is peeling back the Hungarian composer's dazzling facade to reveal a profound human voice and dramatic lyricism.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will begin drafting a report to submit to the United Nations on the progress the country has made in implementing the 17 U.N.-designated sustainable development goals (SDGs), the first such report in 10 years, officials said Thursday.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has called on the international community to jointly respond to the recent spread of trade restrictive measures by major economies in a high-level meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations, the trade ministry said Thursday.
Italian Ambassador to Korea Emilia Gatto urged closer cooperation with Korea in a field where she said Italian know-how is built on both deep tradition and advanced technology.
I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Force…
El ex primer ministro de Corea del Sur Han Duck-soo (centro), llega a la Corte Central de Distrito de Seúl para una vista de sentencia en un caso de insurrección, en Seúl, Corea del Sur, el 21 enero de 2026. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Foto vía AP, archivo)
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson has stressed the importance of an "east-up" perspective view in the Indo-Pacific theater, stressing a "coherent strategic geometry" of South Korea, Japan and the Philippines in the region, according to the USFK website Thursday.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) have failed to cooperate properly on nuclear power plant export projects, resulting in overlapping expenditures and other inefficiencies, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) said Thursday.
1442 -- King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) orders the development of a rain gauge. The king is best known in Korea for inventing the Korean alphabet, Hangeul.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The country's financial regulator said Thursday that major securities firms need to extend their support to high-risk but promising companies as part of their ongoing effort to bolster productive financing.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung's approval rating fell to 67 percent after remaining at a record high of 69 percent for three consecutive surveys, a biweekly poll showed Thursday.
Core insurance earnings fall as existing units lose momentum
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first homegrown KF-21 fighter jet has passed a "full" combat readiness evaluation, marking the completion of the final phase of the performance verification process in its development, the state arms procurement agency said Thursday.
Former South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, center, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court for his first sentencing trial in the insurrection case, in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP, File)
I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Force…
Health authorities said Thursday they had confirmed South Korea’s first locally detected human case of Oz virus infection, a tick-borne disease previously found here only in an imported case.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- Son Heung-min and his Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) have been eliminated in the semifinals of their top regional tournament after absorbing a crushing loss in Mexico.
Low-paid, female-dominated workforce faces chronic shortages, robot replacements remain limited
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The Bank of Korea (BOK) on Thursday assessed that investors are funneling their positive returns from stock investment into the local property market instead of on consumption.
Workers at semiconductor plants in China operated by South Korean chipmakers are reportedly demanding higher bonuses, as expectations grow for windfall payouts at their headquarters in Korea.
Iran has formally denied any involvement in an explosion that hit a South Korean cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week.
Seocho-gu in southern Seoul plans to introduce an artificial intelligence system to review contract documents, the district office said Thursday, in what it described as the country’s first such use of AI in a government administrative process.
A South Korean appeals court has reduced the sentence of former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo by eight years for crimes relating to ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law.
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The Ministry of Justice said Thursday it conducted an inspection of human rights violations against foreign seasonal workers last month and found 84 violations at 61 workplaces in eight cities and counties.
The Seoul High Court on Thursday reduced former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s prison sentence to 15 years from 23 years, while upholding most of the main charges tied to his role in then-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration in December 2024.
The South Korean firm had seen its market share in mainland China dwindle amid intense competition from a slew of domestic rivals
The South Korean firm had seen its market share in mainland China dwindle amid intense competition from a slew of domestic rivals
SEOUL, May 7 (Yonhap) -- The government will invest 30 billion won (US$20.7 million) in a project aimed at establishing an artificial intelligence (AI) data platform for autonomous vessels as part of its manufacturing transformation initiative, officials said Thursday.
A lower court had sentenced Han in January to 23 years’ imprisonment for his role in the 2024 martial law declaration
A lower court had sentenced Han in January to 23 years’ imprisonment for his role in the 2024 martial law declaration
South Korean beauty tech firm APR delivered record quarterly results Thursday, riding a wave of overseas demand that now accounts for nearly 90 percent of total sales.
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